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In the fall when I was still young enough to be belted into a car seat, my parents decided to take me to a corn maze, and bought a decorative stalk of corn to bring home. They put the stalk inside the car literally inches away from my face, and 30 seconds down the road all hell broke loose. Earwigs, beetles, flying ants, spiders and an assortment of terrifying creatures poured out of this thing on to the floor and all over the back of the car, and poor little me was unable to unbelt myself. There were at least a hundred insects in that bundle of corn, which was not an exaggeration of a young mind because after the trauma my parents had to have the car professionally vacuumed and cleaned. The WORST thing to fly out of that cornstalk was a big green praying mantis, that sat itself on the top of my carseat inches away from my face & threatened to fly at me any second. Screamed my ass off every god damned second of that car ride and the parents still wouldn't pull the car over to help 6 year old me. Dickheads traumatized me forever.

North Carolina isn't north of Texas. The northern border of the Texas Panhandle is 36°30' north. The northern border of North Carolina is also at 36°30' north. The parallel 36°30' north was the result of the Missouri Compromise.

as a connecticutter we just had one of the more progressive sessions of senate congress i've ever seen. we passed a medical marijuana bill, increased funding for education (especially in impoverished areas), banned the death penalty, extended union bargaining rights, increased minimum wage, and hell i'm even allowed to buy alcohol on sundays like in 49 other states now!

I'm in Minnesota and they have a similar bill coming up this fall. It's pretty fucked up. At one point I had hopes that we weren't bigoted enough to let it go through. Then I went outside the city. We're fucking doomed.

Oddly enough, I just looked up that verse for completely unrelated reasons a few hours ago. (I was going to make a "you must purge the evil from among you!" joke and wanted to make sure I understood the context.)

Anyway, it's fifty shekels of silver, but you don't qualify under those circumstances. The silver is for cases where the woman is single and not engaged to anyone. If she's married, then it's the death penalty for both of you. Sorry.

On a side note, it's really debatable that "rape" is at all the correct translation. According to this, there are two words used. Roughly speaking, one of them means "grab", "hold", or "seize" and the other means "lay". Just like in English, the word can be used for sex (like "get laid") or for burial (like "lay to rest").

So the penalties here are for a grab-and-lay. So the sins described here could very well be just plain old premarital or extramarital sex. Or it could mean rape, but it's very debatable. If anything, I'd be more outraged for that the penalty for consensual premarital sex is death.

Disclaimer: Except for the contradictory bits. And the bits we don't like. And the bits that are obviously allegorical. And the bits that are out of date. And the bits that don't apply any more, like all of Leviticus (except for the "no sex between guys" bit, of course).

Yeah it was really hamfisted especially considering that there was already a gay marriage ban in place. Still some politician figured they could get a 'victory' out of this bill and thus... my home state gets flamed like a scientologist on /b/.

I live in North Carolina and this comes as no shock to me. This is a very religious state and most people who are against gay marriage are religious. Plain and simple fact. Anyone who voted for this amendment can't give you a valid reason as to why other than it's against gods will to be gay. It makes me sick at how happy and proud some people by stripping away other humans rights.

Excellent point! A lot of people don't understand our large population and geography is going to have an absurd variety of beliefs, and that they do vary quite drastically depending on region or even state. California laws should not be imposed in Texas, and visa versa. The people are way too different culturally speaking.

Not sure if anyone else mentioned this or not, but the amendment was pretty sure to pass, as it was attached to a primary election wherein mostly republicans, who need to determine their candidate still, were voting. There is currently a petition to overturn this decision and we will hopefully see enough support for it to do something. What's fucked up for me is I moved from CA right after prop. 8 passed and now I live in NC just in time for this shit.